by Rachel Hovenden

rhovenden@thekmgroup.co.uk

A flag raising ceremony will take place in the new civic square to show the borough’s appreciation for the armed forces.

After the raising of the flags on Monday, June 20 at 12.30pm Gravesham’s mayor, Cllr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, will inspect the service personnel in the civic square in Windmill Street.

This will be followed by a 1940s concert featuring professional entertainers, including Anna Golden, Richard Green, Malcolm Jordan and Mark Walsh.

There will also be an opportunity to visit a Home Front Exhibition bus with reconstructions of a 1940s living room, a shop, a bombed out street and an air raid shelter.

The event, in celebration of Armed Forces day the following Saturday, will see the Salvation Army band play and provide a Naffi-style wagon with free refreshments.

In July the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, nicknamed The Tigers, will process through Gravesend town centre.